Free Domestic Open Adoption Seminar October 26, 2009

Come join in this interactive educational adoption seminar led by Kelli Suchy. A Redwood City mid life adoptive mom to a wonderful 5-year-old daughter who went through 6 failed IVF cycles and 2 pregnancy losses before she and her husband made the decision to create their family via domestic open adoption.

Kelli's "credentials":

I am an adoptive Mom who did extensive research online and reading books while in the process of adopting in 2002 - 2004, contributor to various adoption related magazine articles, founder of the Redwood City Mothers Club Mid Life Mom's Group and moderator of an online Parenting after Adoption Message Board.

What I want you to take away from this seminar: real life information about adoption from someone who has been through it. Resources to guide you in making decisions to form an adoption plan. The most important piece for me is to have you leave with a lot of HOPE as we move forward into the holiday season. So you enter 2010 with the beginnings of a plan to create your own family by adoption as we did if that ends up feeling right for you.

To be covered:
1. Moving forward from pursuing fertility treatments to pursuing adoption as a way to create or add on to your family
2. Open, independent adoption - what they look like from all 3 sides of the triad - birth mother, child and potential adoptive parents
3. Adoption agencies, attorneys, facilitators, adoption coaches - what role do each of them play in this process
4. Approximate costs of adopting in the U.S.
5. Outreach/Advertising - will you do it on your own or hire someone and what to expect
6. What to do with yourself as you wait to be selected by a birth mother
7. Expectations, myths and realities of bonding with a non-biological child
8. How and when to talk to your child about being adopted
9. Various resources - books, support groups in the area and online, agencies, attorneys, facilitators and adoption coaches I know personally

Free.

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